- The biggest problem in the American political system right now is the press. We have a press that is populated by writers and media "personalities" who largely do not know what they are writing about. The press allows politicians to make lazy, ill-informed pronouncements about and decisions on policy because the members of the press are often lazy and ill-informed themselves.

Democracy is doomed unless we demand that this stop right now.

- I'm proud to be a teacher. And I mightily resent my governor's attitude toward my profession, which alternates between patronizing and contemptuous.